Prone burial of young girl found in Italy

The remains of a 13-year-old anemic girl, found buried face down, has been unearthed by archaeologists working in northern Italy.

Dubbed by Italian media as “the witch girl,” the skeleton was unearthed at the complex of San Calocero in Albenga on the Ligurian Riviera, by a team of the Pontifical Institute of Christian Archaeology at the Vatican.

The site, a burial ground on which a martyr church dedicated to San Calocero was built around the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., was completely abandoned in 1593.

The prone burial, which has yet to be radiocarbon dated, is thought to date from the late antiquity or the early Middle Ages.

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Story: Rosella Lorenzi, Discovery News | Photo: Stefano Roascio